Susanna Clarke Quotes

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• She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

  Susanna Clarke

  Regret, Rain, Color

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

  Susanna Clarke

  Book, Doors, Wardrobe

  "Imagined worlds" by Susanna Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2009.

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• It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.

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  Morning, People, Tuesday

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

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  Men, Gentleman, Magic

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

  Susanna Clarke

  Silence, Solitude, After Hours

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There must come a time when the bullets will run out

  Susanna Clarke

  Running, Bullets

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• He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

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  Waiting, Dumb, World

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• Sing like no one is listening.
  Love like you’ve never been hurt.
  Dance like nobody’s watching,
  and live like it’s heaven on earth.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

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  People, Doe, Complaining

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.416, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

  Susanna Clarke

  Love, Happiness, Hurt

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• Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

  Susanna Clarke

  Life, Midnight, Watches

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.827, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.

  Susanna Clarke

  Song, Sleep, Clouds

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.

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  Kings, Rain, Book

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• How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

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  Men, Evil, Stupidity

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.80, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

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  Book, Office, Asking

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.544, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

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  Names, Arrogance, Polite

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.799, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

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  Cat, Reflection, Imperfection

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.636, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

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  Wine, Drunk, Magic

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.24, A&C Black

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• Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

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  Girl, Names, Looks

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.111, A&C Black

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• Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

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  People, House, Gentleman

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.488, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

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  Character, Names, Needs

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.405, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

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  Curiosity, Curious, Magician

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.756, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

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  Dream, Country, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.26, A&C Black

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• There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

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  Doe, World, Easy

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